culture but especially our respect for personal freedoms. i also have concerns similar to supervisor campos' that this may be an issue that's about one neighborhood, and mostly about one plaza, and i really don't think we need citywide legislation, especially overbroad legislation to deal with an isolated what i would call an isolated community incident. and i think this legislation also, as supervisor olague said, is not good use of our time and i will be voting no on it as well. >> president chiu: is there further discussion? supervisor wiener. >> supervisor wiener: thank you. thank you arbitration colleagues, for your comments. i just want to make a few points. first of all -- and some of the points i've heard today are some that some of the opposite have raised as well.

to suggest this is not important enough or worthy of our time i did a little research and we could go back and i could probably find some resolutions and ordinances from pretty much every member of this body, that would -- that may fall into that category, that are not the most but that actually matter in a lot of people's lives. and so if the new rule is that this board can only take up matters that are somehow monumental, while i really would be interested in that discussion, our agendas would be much lighter, and but that would be a new way of doing business at the board of supervisors. and it would be different than probably the way we've operated where, as a board of supervisors, we're not the united states be senate. we are a local government entity, and we deal with the

day-to-day challenges of a city, and of neighborhoods. and some of those are monumental and some of thosegqjatç are very mundane. and as a district supervisor, you can only imagine if i, or any of us were saying i'm having trouble getting this pothole filled in front of my house, can you please help me. and if you responded and said well let's see, if i have to fix muni and get all the help for all the mentally ill people in our city and close the achievement gap and help all the small businesses that are struggling in this city, do all of those things, and then when i'm done, i'll get to your pothole to be filled. i have a feeling your constituent probably wouldn't respond very positively to that. the fact is that we deal with a whole gamut of issues at this board,>(( úñ large to small, and the large are not to the exclusion of the small. the fact is that this is a real

issue. and i think, colleagues, you'll know that you can love or hate the legislation i proposed, but i work on a lot of different issues, large and small,k$%($$ao all of you. i want to respond to supervisor campos' suggestions this is somehow going to undermine the enforcement against gangs. i don't agree with that at all. the fact is that our police deal with a lot of crimes that are not violent crimes, whether it's auto thefts or trespassing or all sorts of different -- or shoplifting, all sorts of different crimes that are not violent. if we're going to say the police cannot or should not enforce those laws because we have violence going on, i don't think that most people would agree with that. of course violence always needs to be top priority and i can tell supervisor campos how many times, in the castro, or in noe valley, we hear from mission station, listen, we have to deal with the violence in the

mission, and that's top priority. and my constituents understand that, and they respect that, and i've never heard any of them push back against that. everyone knows dealing with violent crime is a top priority but that doesn't mean you can't deal with something because you want police to deal with violent crime. before the introduction of this legislation, like i said this is legislation, like i said this is going on'l people who the minute it started and we weighe waited two years. we tried to resolve this. it was not going to be resolved or moved forward. finally i want to address the issue of free expression. and we are a city of free expression, and it's very important to me and i know to all of us. i don't agree that having yellow your peenis at a busy street

corner as people go by. i don't agree with that comparison. free expression in the abstract is really nice until, if you call this free expression, until it comes to yourumnngvz neighbo. and i wonder what would happen if the naked guys started hanging out in the richmond or 24th and folsom or down near balboa park. response would be. and i guarantee you people would not have waited as long as we waited in the castro to do something about it. so, colleagues, i understand and respect all of your comments. truly arguments against this legislation on the merits. and, colleagues, i ask for your support.

>> supervisor campos: president chiu. >> president chiu: thank you. first of all, i want to thank all the folks in this room who have engaged in this conversation in recent months. and i do want to state that i appreciate the arguments raised by the-#( gí opponents. i had opportunity to sit down with some of the leaders to this that reasonable folks can choose to disagree on this issue. i will say that i don't see necessarily a middle ground on this issue, just given what i have heard from those conversations. and i think we have a situation here, colleagues, where we have a colleague who represents a neighborhood and a district that has a situation, and he has attempted to move forward a more modest set of measures to address the situation, but we are where we are today. say, colleagues that many of us are probably quietly relieved

that this is not a situation that we've had to deal with in our own neighborhood. now as someone who has wondered if there were ways to limit this, let me say a couple of things to that. i think the suggestion in a the exceptions in this measure somehow are not a positive part of this legislation, i think that's not necessarily a position i would support. exceptions for certain types of events, where i think we all do think that it might be appropriate for public nudity to occur. that being said, i know there are also some suggestions about whether this legislation ought to be narrowly defined around a district, where we all know what would likely happen if that were the case. and i will tell you that i did hear from many of my constituents that knew that this is a situation in the castro, but did ask me to support this legislation because they do not

particularly appropriate in our tors neighborhoods, in fisherman's wharf, in the heart of my district, in chinatown, in -- neighborhood and family oriented districts, in nob hill so for those reasons i will be supporting this legislation. i think that the discussion has been a very good one. and i do not think that this7y%ç legislation will somehow end the spirit that we all love about our city and what is special about our city. but i do think that this is an appropriate measure. and to address the suggestion that somehow this is a more trivial concern i agree with supervisor wiener, we consider thousands of measures every year and some of them deal with very profound circumstances facing our city. others deal with the potholes. and what's happening on the street corner, and what we're hearing from our parents. us to address those issues large

and small and again that is why i will be supporting this measure. >> supervisor campos: thank you. supervisor olague. >> supervisor olague: i'm just going to mention that i receive e-mails all the time with people that are upset that there are homeless people in the neighborhood. i probably get more e-mails protesting that than just about anything and i would be the last person to ever legislate banning homeless people from certain parts of the city. so

and so i'm still trying to understand what is so unique and so different about what's happened that we need this now, even though for all these decades that has not been the case. and the second point is i want to be very clear. i don't know that anyone is saying taking care of the little things that happen in a neighborhood are not important. those things are what make the life of a neighborhood work. the pothole is as important as any piece of legislation because

it is critical to the daily life of that individual. but what we are saying is that if i have a pothole in my neighborhood, i am not going to come to the board of supervisors, and pass citywide legislation to address it. the question is whether or not this legislation, this citywide ban, is the best way to deal with this serious situation. some of us question whether or not it is. and so that's the difference. but to say that somehow that means that we don't care about the nuts and bolts of what happens in a neighborhood, that is not the case. it's simply how you address it. >> president chiu: colleagues, any further discussion? madam clerk, please call the roll. >> clerk calvillo: on item 32 as amended, supervisor avalos, no. supervisor campos, no. president chiu, aye. supervisor chu, aye. supervisor cohen, aye. supervisor elsbernd, aye. supervisor farrell, aye. supervisor kim, no.

supervisor mar, no. supervisor olague, no. supervisor wiener, aye. there are six ayes and five nos. >> president chiu: this ordinance is passed on the first reading. deputy

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board of directors. (roll call) cell phones that are set on vibrate can interfere with the microphone. >> motion one, approval of the meetings. >> chairman nolan: all those in favor? opposed?

-- >> good evening commissioners. i do not attend last meeting. however your approving them and i was in the august 21 of september 4 meeting, i was wondering why there is an endless culture of misrepresentation of certain verifiable facts. those minutes and that summarize what i stated or submitted. why should these? the omission of relevant data that pertains to taxi service, taxi services, is the dereliction of duty, omission. for special assistance number 12, parliamentarian code 1372,

who is supposed to supervise the flow of information, ensure preparation and distribution, ensure the development and proper maintenance of database and files, doesn't this board care about taxi dispatch, driver quality of the confusion over top lights, and the lack of taxi stands? bearing my comments and pc&m survey in the sand can only be construed as a cover-up. would you correct those minutes? >> thank you. >> anyone else care to address the board on the minutes? >> chairman nolan: all those in favor? the ayes have it. >> secretary boomer: item 5, communication.

>> chairman nolan: let me say that we anticipated a large crowd of people today, taxi items. what i want to do is combine with a members consent, 11 and 12, and get people from the public about three minutes each. i was under the impression that everybody understood at that point that there were no taxi items on their. i apologize not everybody had known that. will listen to the proposals today. anything else ms. boomer? >> secretary boomer: item 6, introduction and a new business by board members. >> i would like to say that we went to the cable cart delegation. director reiskin, director

nolan and myself went to the dedication of the cable cart number 6. it was nice to be there to see the car as it rolled out as agreed everyone who had worked on that i congratulate them for doing a great job. unfortunately the gentleman in charge of doing the paint job for 30 years -- could not be there because he was ill in the hospital. everybody recognize the hard work he had done that. the cable cars are such an amazing attraction and the drivers are such ambassadors; >> chairman nolan: it was impressive and moving; he dedicated his entire work life to the cable cars. it shows.

the quality shows. the family joined in the ribbon-cutting ceremony. director ramos? >> director ramos: thank you chairman nolan. i had the great pleasure to attend the recent public event that the san francisco bicycle coalition coordinated hosting the gentleman from copenhagen, one of the directors that is helped push their mode share the something like 30 percent. one of the things that they have done in copenhagen - and there is interest in doing that here - is getting a bicycle counter installed along one of the heavy bicycle corridors. there is private interest in

cooperating with the nta and exploring the opportunity. i want to see if it would be okay to see the could have staff take a look at something like that the next four that for future discussion and start to get - explore those opportunities. >> chairman nolan: will members consent will ask mr. reiskin. thank you, ms. boomer. >> director ramos: i know we are trying to move quickly. one more thing with respect to safety and well-being of some of our employees. i regularly see our fair inspectors out there. they're always telling me horror stories about how they were assaulted, running into issues with increased amount of enforcement. i am wondering if there is some way where we can have maybe staff look into - if not

outright - a little bit more awareness building on the part of the riding public and how it is a crime to assault and abuse our fare inspectors. >> chairman nolan: we also received indication from the president of 258 about drivers as well; he was referring to the driver after the world series in the bus, attacked, set on fire. all that mr. reiskin, if you could come back to some point, i look around the country and see what best practices might be there. i am sure that fare inspectors is tough stuff. >> secretary boomer: -- report. >> good afternoon. a few things for you today. first of all happy to announce

the couple of awards, recognition that the agency has received, the mtc, metropolitan transportation committee presented the sfmta with excellent emotion award for sf park, and also -- the annual award program the mtc puts on, we were fortunate to be recognized for two different programs. also eric williams, the president of 258 and i attended an event of the san francisco museum and historical society, when both muni for its 100 anniversary and the market street railway received awards

of merit from that society. get to get positive recognition for the history of muni which again came forth last week when the put car 26 back into service. moving on, one bike issue, jfk cycle track that went in the early this year - i know there were a lot of concerns about it. there was a lot of back-and-forth, engagement of different stakeholders to approve the design and address concerns. we have gone back to conduct a survey to see how the traffic for cars, pedestrians, bikes, people with disabilities has changed since the installation of the cycle track. i will mention also that director rubke and director brinkman and others dissipated in the event last week but on

the mayor's office of disability, the independent living council, the walk sf bike coalition to talk about issues of accessibility. we did speed surveys for vehicles and bicycles at two locations, in person surveys, intercept surveys before and

after the installation of the cycle track.

holidays are coming up. construction in union square will be suspended in the holidays. it will be reopened from market to geary, especially during the holidays the best way to access union square, downtown shopping district is by muni, bart, ferries; the best places to catch a cab, or park -- i am missing some of the text here -- we want people to come to the